Creative Writing (poetry): Personification

English

A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.

A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.

Words that sound like the noise they describe.

Which of these is the correct definition of personification?

We both lurched forward quickly like hungry dogs.

Which of these is an example of personification?

Personification helps a poem to flow more smoothly.

Personification helps to create more powerful pictures in our minds.

Personification helps to create sound in a poem.

Which of these is an example of why poets use personification?

Personification is a type of figurative language.

Personification is another name for the stanzas in poetry.

Personification is not used to help create more powerful pictures in our minds.

Which of these statements is true about personification?

In fact-based texts e.g. information leaflets.

Where are we most likely to see personification?